Racing Optics' Speedstack7 Tearoffs

Your practice and qualifying lap times blistered the field, and you're already starting to imagine how you're going to spend the winner's check. The green flag waves and everything is going smoothly-then kursplat! Up spews a massive chunk of sticky mud right into the faceshield, rendering you virtually blind. Not a pleasant scene at more than 100 mph. So you combat this by wearing tearoffs, but many brands distort your vision almost as bad as a face full of Georgia clay, especially when using a stack four or five tearoffs deep. Now, new tearoffs from Racing Optics aim to change all that with its Speedstack7.

Put simply, traditional tearoffs can affect light reflection and transmission to the point of hampering a driver's visual acuity. By the time six or seven tearoffs are stacked up, the transmission of light can be reduced by as much as 50 percent, and reflection can increase as much as 50 percent. Essentially, according to Racing Optics, this loss of light would be like wearing sunglasses, and the increase in reflection would be like looking straight into a mirror. Put those two together and the phrase "blind as a bat" comes to mind.

Speedstack7's stack of seven tearoffs laminated together uses a unique optical material and process that gives the wearer the same crisp visibility as one traditional tearoff. In fact, multiple stacks of Speedstack7 can be worn, which allow a driver to race with an unprecedented 35 tearoffs-enough for even the sloppiest conditions. Also, due to the lamination process, Speedstack7 tearoffs will never fog or collect dust between layers.